Working Paper #2007-015
Are Firms That Received R&D Subsidies More Innovative?
This paper looks at the effectiveness of R&D grants for Canadian plants
that already benefit from R&D tax credits. Using a non-parametric
matching estimator, we find that firms that benefited from both policy
measures introduced more new products than their counterparts that only
benefited from R&D tax incentives. They also made more world-first
product innovations and were more successful in commercializing their
innovations.
- Keywords
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- Innovations
- R&D
- Matching estimators
- Mahalanobis
- Innovation survey
- Tax credits
- Grants. UNU-MERIT Working Papers ISSN 1871-9872
Cite this as
APA 7th ed.Bérubé, C., & Mohnen, P. (2007). Are Firms That Received R&D Subsidies More Innovative? (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2007-015). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=2831